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020 _z9781421418278 (electronic)
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100 1 _aTiede, Hans-Joerg,
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245 1 0 _aUniversity reform :
_bthe founding of the American Association of University Professors /
_cHans-Joerg Tiede ; foreword by Michael Bérubé.
264 1 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2015.
300 _axi, 269 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a Foreword by Michael BérubéAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The University Question1. No Hired Man2. University Reform3. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching4. The Committee of Nine5. The Founding of the AAUP6. First Investigations and the Committee of Fifteen7. The 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure8. The Goal of Investigations and the Early Development of Academic Due Process9. Academic Freedom in the Age of Repression10. Academic Unrest11. The Growth and Development of the AssociationConclusion. From University Reform to the 1920sAppendix. Officers of the AAUP, Members of Committee A, and Members of Investigative Committees, 1915–20NotesIndex
520 _a"The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America's faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organization's initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUP's subsequent response to World War I and the first Red Scare. It also describes the founders' efforts, especially those of Arthur O. Lovejoy and James McKeen Cattell, in securing a greater role for faculty in the government of colleges and universities"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"Academic freedom, the intellectual bedrock of American intellectual activities, was not always a shared value, but one that emerged from faculty collective action. This book provides a detailed history of the founding and early activities of the American Association of University Professors set into the broader societal and intellectual circumstances that affected its initial development. Key to the story, of course, is the influential work of Arthur O. Lovejoy at Johns Hopkins and John Dewey at Harvard in establishing this national association and very early professional trade union. The professionalization of the faculty, which accompanied the development of the American research university, identified academic freedom as a central element of professional autonomy. Public debates over academic freedom occurred within the broader debate of the balance of power in the American university. This debate was strongly influenced by the perspectives of the Progressive Era: the goal to democratize university governance was presented frequently in terms similar to the broader goal of democratizing American society. These developments were central to the establishment of the Association, and individual founders of the AAUP played an active part in many of them, inside and outside of academe"--
_cProvided by publisher.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Association of University Professors
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650 0 _aCollege teachers' unions
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCollective bargaining
_xCollege teachers
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aEDUCATION / Higher.
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650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / General.
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